Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Ellis Powell (pre-recorded) and John Snagge (pre-recorded)
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Recorded: Sunday 24 January 1960
First Broadcast : Thursday 28 January 1960 on the BBC Home Service
At its meeting of shareholders, the Imperial Ascot Tobacco Company discovers that its only customer, Ned Seagoon, is giving up smoking. Grytpype convinces him to keep up the habit with his latest invention – an all-filter cigarette with a tobacco tip. In his attempts to kick the habit, Ned consults doctors Moriarty, who removes his clothes, and Bloodnok, who removes his wallet. To escape Grytpype and the temptation of his cigarettes, Ned stows away on a Hindu ship. He ends up hiding all the way to South America – and back again. Back in England he hides in Bloodnok’s military museum, where Dennis steals his watch, his last worldly possession. Desperate, Ned signs a contract with the Imperial Ascot Tobacco Company to smoke one cigarette a day. The catch is that each one is ninety feet long. Ned tries to escape in Bloodnok’s rice paper Chinese balloon, but Moriarty, in his tobacco-powered Zeppelin, shoots him down. He ends up in hospital, where Dr. Cameron offers him a cigarette.
The episode ends with Greenslade announcing “Yes, that was it. The last of them. So, bye now.”
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